we don't want to go back to the 1949 law. it's not a sustainable policy solution long term, however, it may take the prospect of going over the dairy cliff to prompt congress to do its job here in the next few hours here hopefully and pass a new farm bill that has a better safety net for dairy farmers going forward. >> we're all waiting to see what congress does, if they're going to do anything at all in the next 12 hours or so. what would this mean, if you go to the grocery store and you don't have this extension, what kind of prices are we looking at? >> first of all, suzanne, the hangover for consumers and other products tonight won't be affecting consumers of dairy products tomorrow morning. it doesn't happen that quickly. what would happen, as we go back to the 1949 law, as your sound bite from secretary vilsack indicated, is that the usda would be required to raise prices to dairy farmers, and eventually that would trickle down to consumers of all dairy products. >> are we talking like within days, weeks, months, that y